Posted on 10/20/2013 2:28:24 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Edited on 10/20/2013 3:13:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Forget the burger and fries clogging your arteries. The "Big Catch" fish platter at Long John Silver's is being called the "Worst Restaurant Meal in America." The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group, says the dish has more than 1300 calories, 33 grams of trans fats and 3700 milligrams of sodium.
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He needs guidance. There must be some objective data that supports not adding a new tax on the food that other people eat.
Same here. There used to be one 1/2 mi from me and way back they had oysters. Double yummmmmm. They dropped those but I still liked to eat there now and then.
They shut down and there's one left in the area, not worth driving to. I found a recipe for their batter on the web and got my own fish. Catfish fillets, tilapia and some cod. Wanted some scallops and oysters but the store won't have them fresh until closer to the holidays.
When I got the fish I couldn't resist some creamed herring. Long senior moment there. I like shrimp, too in my own horseradish/chili sauce. Heinz chili sauce, no chili in it, my favorite brand of that. Squeeze of lemon juice.
Anyway, I don't use a thermometer and my fat may not have been hot enough but my batter didn't get as golden brown as that picture. It fried up nice and crispy though and tasted fine. I saw another recipe with 1 tsp of sugar, didn't know if I should try that or not. I don't want beer batter though.
This was 3/4 cup flour 2 tbsp corn starch 1/4 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt, 3/4 cup water. I don't deep fry anything very often. Usually I bake fish different ways. Patted the fish dry and the batter is thick enough and sticks very well.
These guys are liberal Nazi food freaks.
They're all a bunch of vegans who want people to give up meat, founded by Ralph Nader, no less. And yet the drive-by's treat them as honest brokers looking out for healthy food, just like they treat the AARP as spokesmen for all retired people.
I can’t eat their food. Horrible stuff.
Don’t sweat it, with all that grease it’ll slide right out in no time at all.
Fox should know better.
Always remember the key to healthy dining. If it tastes good, SPIT IT OUT!
If “The Center for Science in the Public Interest” is against it, I’ll have to go try this at lunch tomorrow. I don’t know if we still have a Long John Silvers in my area anymore. What the heck, I’ll drive up to an hour and a half to try it.
There might be, but he wasn’t going to find it overnight, which was all the time he had. I did a full, sentence-by-sentence rewrite, because he can’t afford a bad grade at this point. Careful monitoring will prevent future emergencies!
Got food poisoning from that joint back in the ‘80’s. I’m back better then ever after two bags of injected saline. They’ll NEVER get my loot again.
Is that John McCain?
No, but the assignment required sources and data, and we were in a rush. I didn’t say he believed it: he just drafted it, and I did a $20/hour professional rewrite which I will take out of his hide, along with the speeding ticket.
That’s how we are cooking our fish (halibut) and fries...in the oven.
Key to success of both is high heat and convection oven. We cook the fish at 400 and the fries at 450. Use a little spray oil (we use olive oil) and kosher salt.
MMMMMM, good. Satisfies the lust for fries w/o cranking up the fry daddy!
Benefit....the spouse and I are both slim, have low cholesterol levels and low blood pressure. Our DR. was very pleased when we went in for our wellness checkup.
You can have great tasting food w/o getting fat.
That’s very true.
Can you at least sit him down and deprogram him? Explain that the limited data he had available was misleading and not representative of the truth. Even though the assignment is over, it’s not too late to help him research the pertinent facts, for his own benefit. His core beliefs are being formed now.
ROFL
I had lunch today at a neighborhood fry shop. A huge portion of fries, topped with breaded fried scallops, onion rings and a side of cole slaw. If it’s going to kill me, it’s a great way to go. The plate was $14.99 and I’ll wager it’s a dozen times better than Long John Silver’s.
He knows. Tom’s a good FReeper kid, and his core beliefs are small-government. He started out with an “anti-” position on the topic, but then he wasn’t finding data to back it up. Cato Institute didn’t have a statistical paper on the topic. In the 48-hour time frame, we had to go with mass-media, which means pro-regulation, sources.
we also bake fries, tater tots, real potatoes, and lots of veggies in the oven. less oil, taste better and provides heat to the kitchen
We only eat the hushpuppies from there. They’re fresh, anyway.
Flounder, tarTAR sauce from Red Lobster, cole slaw from Sea Island, baked tater from Bill Miller’s.
It’s not fresh caught, but it’ll do in a pinch.
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